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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The greatness of Gods mercy in pardoning sin.
11. Here Admire the greatness of Gods patience in bearing with sinners. It may be thou hast been an Unclean Sinner, a Drunken sinner, a Swearing-wretch, these twenty, thirty, forty, it may be threescore years, and more. And hath God spared thee? Oh! here see the wonder of Gods patience!
- 11. Admire Gods patience in bearing with sinners.
If it were not, that God is Almighty in the power of his patience, it had been impossible he should have spared thee so long. He tells us so, Hos. 11.9. I am God, and not man—I will not enter into the city, viz. to destroy it. So Mal. 3.6.—I am JEHOVAH, I change not—Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed; Implying, if he had not been God, if he had not been Almighty in the power of his patience, they had certainly been cut off long before.